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When we say that pleasure is ...

When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.

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Necessity is an evil; but the...

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

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The magnitude of pleasure rea...

The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.

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Against other things it is po...

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

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A world is a circumscribed po...

A world is a circumscribed portion of sky... it is a piece cut off from the infinite.

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If the gods have the will to ...

If the gods have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not all-powerful. If they are neither able nor willing, they are neither all-powerful or benevolent. If they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist?

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Natural justice is a compact ...

Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

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Whatsoever causes no annoyanc...

Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.

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Death, the most dreaded of ev...

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

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Justice is never anything in ...

Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

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The wise man who has become a...

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

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Empty is the argument of the ...

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

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The wealth required by nature...

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

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We must meditate on what brin...

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

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Thanks be to blessed Nature t...

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

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My garden does not whet the a...

My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.

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It is impossible to live a pl...

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life.

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Neither one should hesitate a...

Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one's soul's healthy.

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Don't fear god, Don't worry a...

Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure

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An irreligious man is not one...

An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.

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